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A 25-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to four years in jail and six strokes of the cane for molesting a British woman at a night.

From an angry plane passenger in China demanding 'free' seats to Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific hiring 100 mainland Chinese cabin crew, here are a few highlights from SCMP's recent reporting We have selected seven stories from this week's news across Hong Kong,

A consortium led by GuocoLand submitted the only bid for a prime plot of land in the Marina South precinct, adding to signs demand for housing in Singapore is softening amid rising interest rates and government’s property curbs.

S. Iswaran, the Singapore transport minister who resigned after facing graft charges, was in public service for more than a quarter of a century. It took just months for his storied career to unravel.

Ng Yong Kuan, who suffered from schizophrenia, installed the device in the toilet of female-only floors while staying with his sister at a dormitory.

Singapore has sent a strong message to defend its clean image. Six months after authorities revealed a graft investigation involving the city-state’s transport minister, S. Iswaran, the Corruption ...

The Republic of Singapore has long prided itself on being one of the world’s rare anti-corruption havens — but things are changing now in a wild saga that involves Formula 1's Grand Prix in the ...

Singapore’s Transport Minister S. Iswaran resigned after being charged with corruption in the biggest political scandal in almost four decades, which has cast a pall on the city-state known for clean governance.

The charges against Iswaran, widely credited for bringing Formula One racing to the city state, conclude months of speculation surrounding the high-profile case He and tycoon Ong Beng Seng were arrested last year as the ruling People's Action Party faced a major internal crisis not seen in decades Singapore's transport minister S.

Singapore's Transport Minister S. Iswaran was charged with 27 offences in a graft investigation, in one of the highest-profile cases involving a minister in the Asian financial hub in decades.

Accused of accepting tickets to “Hamilton,” air travel and soccer games in Britain, the transport official resigned before he pleaded not guilty in court.

Singaporean Transport Minister S. Iswaran was charged Thursday in the first ministerial corruption case ever seen in the Asian financial hub known for squeaky clean government.

Singapore's Transport Minister S. Iswaran was charged with 27 offences in a graft investigation, the anti-corruption agency said on Thursday, in one of the highest-profile cases involving a minister ...

Singapore’s Transport Minister S. Iswaran has resigned after being charged with corruption on Thursday, the prime minister’s office said, confirming a historic development for a city state that prides ...

Former Singapore transport minister S. Iswaran faces 27 charges, including two counts of corruption, 24 counts of obtaining “valuable things” from someone he had business dealings with as a public ...

Singapore's first giant panda cub, Le Le, took a 4.5-hour-long flight to China via Singapore Airlines on 16 January 2024.